Headcount

Nov.

3

2008

How To Divide HeadCount by the Period Number

by Jan Harrigan CPA

Anybody need FRx to calculate an average?

Today’s post is compliments of Rick Tenorio. Rick is the moderator at the newsgroup at microsoft.public.frx, and he has collected a number of helpful and practical documents on using FRx. This initial post covers how to divide a headcount statistic by the period number in order to arrive at an average headcount.

Note that you can also use this technique to calculate average sales per period (use YTD revenue divided by the period number). I know a number of my clients do this in order to get an initial sense of whether their MTD revenue looks right. [click to continue…]

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Oct.

10

2007

How To Use Full Account Segments in the FRx Row

by Jan Harrigan CPA

Putting the full account number in the row overrides the tree. Are you toast? No.

Most of the time, FRx is used with the main GL account segment specified in the row, and the remaining parts of the account structure are specified in the optional reporting tree. Often, however, there is a need to specify the full account structure in a row or two (I’m using a headcount example today), and this causes inaccuracies. [click to continue…]

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